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It's funny cause my neph just added them to my regimen with meals or any snack inbetween & I have never had the gas before I experience now! Please excuse the bluntness here but I seem to have developed quite the belch these days..

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Mt problem is that I have such high calcium and so I was taken off the Phoslo and was put on the Renvela but the Renvela is so much more expensive and I didn't think it was working as well so I had some phoslo left over and so I started taking them again and the calcium was going up and so they took me off the phoslo and I would not be able to take the tums either because of the calcium. And now I am having real issues with the bad itching. and so I stopped eating everything that I thought was high in PO4 that is so much easier to spel than phosphorus. I am putting on this anti itch creams and such but it doesn't help that much and a half hour you are itching again. A couple of weeks ago they gave me this pill to take I went to urgent care and the pill seems to be work but they say don't drive because it makes you sleepy. I drive myself to dialysis now because the treatments starts at 0530 and not too many people want to take me to dialysis. So I drive myself and I just take the side streets not too many people are on the road at 0930-1000 am when I leave the dialysis. I could take the bus but I have to walk a mile to the bus stop and then take two buses to go four miles. and then on the way home take two busses to go four miles and than walk a mile home. We have been having some good rains lately. we need the rain but I don't feel like walking a mile in the rain. I just love to gripe now. Just be happy man you ain't dead yet

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Mt problem is that I have such high calcium and so I was taken off the Phoslo and was put on the Renvela but the Renvela is so much more expensive and I didn't think it was working as well so I had some phoslo left over and so I started taking them again and the calcium was going up and so they took me off the phoslo and I would not be able to take the tums either because of the calcium. And now I am having real issues with the bad itching. and so I stopped eating everything that I thought was high in PO4 that is so much easier to spel than phosphorus. I am putting on this anti itch creams and such but it doesn't help that much and a half hour you are itching again. A couple of weeks ago they gave me this pill to take I went to urgent care and the pill seems to be work but they say don't drive because it makes you sleepy. I drive myself to dialysis now because the treatments starts at 0530 and not too many people want to take me to dialysis. So I drive myself and I just take the side streets not too many people are on the road at 0930-1000 am when I leave the dialysis. I could take the bus but I have to walk a mile to the bus stop and then take two buses to go four miles. and then on the way home take two busses to go four miles and than walk a mile home. We have been having some good rains lately. we need the rain but I don't feel like walking a mile in the rain. I just love to gripe now. Just be happy man you ain't dead yet

Yeah that is one thing .. if you have high Calcium levels than you can NOT take Tums. That is for sure! I have low Calcium so that is why it is okay for me to take.

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[QUOTE=Feelinlost;30555]It's funny cause my neph just added them to my regimen with meals or any snack inbetween & I have never had the gas before I experience now! Please excuse the bluntness here but I seem to have developed quite the belch these days..:

The calcium in TUMS (and many over the counter calcium pills) is calcium carbonate.
The "carbonate" part is what gives many people gas (of various sorts..I'm not going to spell them out). As has been mentioned some people's guts eventually get used to the calcium carbonate; other people don't. Another form of calcium, calcium citrate, is easier on people's guts and virtually eliminates any form of gas caused by the carbonate form. [one brand name is Citracal]

However it's usually a bit more expensive and may not work as fast as a phosphate binder that you take with a meal.
And you should not take it or ANY calcium pill or tablet if you have high calcium levels.

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